Data Centre Engineering Innovation | Global Engineering Team

Technical excellence by design

The Global Engineering Team (GET) provides independent technical leadership across the business: driving innovation, shaping engineering strategy and strengthening quality assurance across every project we deliver. Operating beyond day-to-day project delivery, the team ensures every technical strategy is informed by the latest industry developments and evolving customer requirements, while maintaining independent technical review across all deliverables.

For our clients, this means technically robust, operationally informed solutions shaped by global project experience and supported by a rigorous approach to technical governance and quality assurance: delivering infrastructure that performs reliably, adapts to evolving demands and supports long-term operational success.

“Our Global Engineering Team exists to strengthen engineering leadership across the business: a dedicated function operating beyond day-to-day project delivery, focused on four strategic pillars. This creates a differentiated approach to technical governance and quality assurance, ensuring every project’s technical strategy is tailored to our customers’ operational and commercial objectives, whilst ensuring quality through our six-eye review process.”

Charlie Bater, Chief Technical Officer

Operational Efficiency & Process Innovation

The GET drives continuous improvement across our engineering workflows, developing scalable delivery methodologies, standardised processes, centralising our global project knowledge and operational efficiencies that strengthen consistency, quality and programme certainty across every region.

External Thought & Technology Leadership

The GET evaluates emerging technologies, engineering trends and operational challenges shaping the future of digital infrastructure, ensuring Black & White and our clients remain at the forefront of data centre engineering innovation, providing strategies that are efficient now whilst being fit-for-purpose for the future.

Project Strategy & Inception

At the earliest stages of every project, the GET provides strategic technical steering and engineering oversight, helping define the right approach, ensuring that our technical and delivery strategy aligns with the customer’s project objectives.

Independent Technical Strategy Review

Operating independently from project delivery teams, GET provides a rigorous technical strategy review across all deliverables, ensuring every project meets Black & White’s engineering standards through a structured six-eye review process.

Aurore Knight

Associate Director, GET

Charlie Bater

Chief Technical Officer

Jason Roy Aves

Senior Electrical Engineer, Global Engineering Team

Meet the Global Engineering Team

The Global Engineering Team brings together engineers whose collective experience spans the full scope of data centre design, and whose thinking shapes how Black & White approaches the industry’s most complex challenges.

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Thought leadership from our Global Engineering Team

Our engineers contribute to the industry conversation, publishing perspectives on the technical and sustainability challenges shaping the next generation of data centre design.

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Data Centre Racks with high density data flowing

AI Data Centre Design: Implications of High-Density Workloads

Date: 13 April 2026
Author: By Jamie Darragh

Advanced Cooling Technologies for AI Data Centres

Date: 18 May 2026
Author: By Aurore Knight

Innovation Industrialised data centre engineering

Industrialised Data Centre Engineering: A New Era for the Sector

Date: 3 May 2026
Author: By Charlie Bater

Bring our expertise to your platform

From conference stages to industry publications, our Global Engineering Team regularly shares thinking on the technical challenges shaping data centre engineering. If you are looking for a speaker, contributor or collaborator, get in touch.

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